The Accelerator is a three-month, investment-based startup program that empowers founders to transform their bold visions into disruptive impact.
The Purdue Innovates Accelerator launched its second annual cohort with five Purdue-connected startups Tuesday (March 24) at the Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration in the Discovery Park District at Purdue. The exceptional founders and teams were chosen for the industry-agnostic accelerator from a large, competitive pool of Boilermaker talent from AgTech to FinTech and beyond.
“The momentum from our first Accelerator cohort has been inspiring, and this next group promises to bring another incredible wave of bold ideas,” said Doug Applegate, associate director of the Purdue Innovates Incubator. “We’re excited to support them with Purdue-connected mentors, investors, partners, and a world-class innovation ecosystem behind them.”
Meet the Purdue-connected startups selected for this cohort:
West Lafayette, IN
Vibe Robotics
Vibe Robotics is building affordable humanoid robots for education, research, and embodied AI development. By lowering the cost and complexity of humanoid systems, the company is expanding access to a broader generation of students, researchers, and developers.
The Purdue connection: Four Purdue students founded Vibe Robotics, including CEO Archer Lin.
Indianapolis, IN
Second Opinion
Second Opinion utilizes a structured multi-AI model to provide a sanity check to AI generated work products, reviewing documents, and highlighting easily verifiable areas of concern within documents in a couple of minutes.
The Purdue connection: COO Ian Holloway graduated from Purdue as part of the inaugural Biomedical Engineering program.
Related: Purdue Innovates Accelerator launches inaugural cohort with five Purdue-connected startups
Miami, FL
Resolvr
Resolvr is building compliant, regulated infrastructure that helps power the future of insurance and reinsurance with digital assets. The company enables digital assets to serve as efficient collateral and capital in transparent, programmable risk-transfer structures, while also making insurance easier to access for digital asset platforms.
The Purdue connection: Co-founder and COO/CFO Dave Schwab holds a degree from Purdue.
Merrillville, IN
FiberX
FiberX is a biomass refinery that upcycles corn stover into high-value products. It mechanically refines stover into fibers used as additives in plastics, rubber, and other materials. Its lignin-first biorefinery produces lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, while its depolymerization technology creates feedstocks for bio-based resins and epoxies, reducing reliance on petroleum and toxic substances such as formaldehyde and PFAS.
The Purdue connection: Chief Strategy Officer Wade Lange holds degrees from Purdue and was previously Chief Entrepreneurial Officer of PRF. The company is licensing and co-developing its biorefinery technology with the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering’s Professors James Caruthers and Enrico Martinez, and doctoral candidate Rajdeep Deka.
Indianapolis, IN
EvoLink Systems
EvoLink Systems is redefining how digital infrastructure is deployed, delivering modular, scalable platforms that integrate power, structure, and compute into a single engineered system. As the built environment evolves, EvoLink replaces legacy construction with repeatable, high-performance solutions designed for speed, efficiency, and scale.
The Purdue connection: Co-founder Scott Sarason is a Purdue graduate.
